Mac also seems to fantasize that he and PC are the female and male protagonists of Avatar. (Source: Microsoft via YouTube)

"It's Blu-Ray -- it's built in," PC to awestruck Mac

For
all the things Macs lack -- pre-installed
Flash, USB
3.0, Blu-ray, and more -- you'd think that'd there'd be more
clever commercials from Microsoft taking a jab at their fruity
competitor. While commercials like Laptop
Huntershinted at
such things, they didn't just lay it out there.

Fortunately
for Microsoft that's exactly what its new
commercial does.

In the commercial Mac
and PC (laptops, not "guys", mind you) are flying aboard an
airplane (conveniently named Windows 7). As the pair
settle in the PC fires up a Blu-ray
movie --Avatar.
Mac is awestruck.

Hesitant Mac ends of being sucked in to
the awe of HD movies as he fantasizes of himself and PC as the female
and male protagonists of Avatar.
Needless to say he ends up watching the whole film.

(We're not
positive on this one, but the commercial may also have been making
fun of the MacBook aluminum unibody cases' tendency to collect dust
and grime, as the stewardess ask the Mac if it needs a dusting.)

So
is it fair for Microsoft to be making fun of Apple's Blu-ray
incompetence?

After all, on the one hand the standard is still
very young. While Blu-ray movies are becoming pretty
ubiquitous, they're still more expensive (generally) than DVDs, and
not everyone even has a Blu-ray player yet.

On the other hand,
for a brand that brags about its media savvy, it seems odd to not to
give customers access to the highest-quality video discs out there.
And the commercial isn't quite as in your face as the old
"Get a Mac" spots -- it's more cartoony and
cute.